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diff --git a/Doc/lib/markup.tex b/Doc/lib/markup.tex
index 362b974a9e..0d923a72d1 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/markup.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/markup.tex
@@ -15,17 +15,6 @@ You may still want to be aware of the \ulink{PyXML add-on
package}{http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/}; that package provides an
extended set of XML libraries for Python.
-Python 2.5 introduces the \module{xmlcore} package; this package
-provides the implementation of the \module{xml} package as distributed
-with the standard library. The \module{xml} package, as in earlier
-versions, provides an interface that will provide the PyXML
-implementation of the interfaces when available, and the standard
-library implementation if not. Applications that can use either the
-PyXML implementation or the standard library's implementation may
-continue to make imports from the \module{xml} package; applications
-that want to only import the standard library's implementation can now
-use the \module{xmlcore} package.
-
The documentation for the \module{xml.dom} and \module{xml.sax}
packages are the definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX
interfaces.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
index 13aa1b433c..73507cce3b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
@@ -1760,13 +1760,6 @@ Konqueror, and elinks. (Contributed by Oleg Broytmann and Georg
Brandl.)
% Patch #754022
-\item The standard library's XML-related package
-has been renamed to \module{xmlcore}. The \module{xml} module will
-now import either the \module{xmlcore} or PyXML version of subpackages
-such as \module{xml.dom}. The renaming means it will always be
-possible to import the standard library's XML support whether or not
-the PyXML package is installed.
-
\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports returning
\class{datetime} objects for the XML-RPC date type. Supply
\code{use_datetime=True} to the \function{loads()} function
@@ -2404,10 +2397,6 @@ to allow only \code{'/'} and \code{'/RPC2'}. Setting
\member{rpc_paths} to \code{None} or an empty tuple disables
this path checking.
-\item Library: the \module{xml} package has been renamed to \module{xmlcore}.
-The PyXML package will therefore be \module{xml}, and the Python
-distribution's code will always be accessible as \module{xmlcore}.
-
\item C API: Many functions now use \ctype{Py_ssize_t}
instead of \ctype{int} to allow processing more data on 64-bit
machines. Extension code may need to make the same change to avoid